An aerial view of Indiana’s corn crop this year shows lush green fields just before harvest, a welcome sight after signs and concerns about drought this summer. “Luckily, because of the dry conditions ...

Tar spot (top right) and southern rust (bottom photos) were hit-and-miss around the Corn Belt in 2025. That made scouting every field especially important. Both diseases often started low and worked ...

Corn is an important part of our daily lives; it literally fuels us, as a food and when turned into ethanol. The grain is essential to Indiana’s economy, ranking fifth in production. Ahead of ...

Crown rot can cause a 30% yield loss per corn plant, but damage won’t show up until R4. Here’s what experts know about this ...

Insignum AgTech is collaborating with Purdue University researchers to identify early stages of tar spot disease outbreaks in corn plants by using already present DNA to turn the color of the leaves.

Severe lodging of a corn field during September in Saunders County, Nebraska. Editor’s note: The following was written by Tamra Jackson-Ziems, University of Nebraska Extension plant pathologist, Jenny ...

CHICAGO, Sept 12 (Reuters) - High levels of fungal disease are lurking in corn fields across the U.S. Midwest, threatening to reduce yields of a record-large crop and cause headaches for farmers ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KCTV) - Researchers in Missouri are hoping to save one of the state’s biggest crops, but the solution won’t come in time to help this year, as a pest from out-of-state attacks ...

According to a new multiyear analysis led by plant disease specialists from across the United States and Ontario, Canada, corn diseases cost farmers an estimated $13.8 billion USD from 2020 to 2023.

A newly identified disease affecting corn and sorghum can closely resemble iron deficiency, potentially leading farmers to apply costly nutrient treatments that do not address the underlying problem.

Precision and timeliness in the detection of plant diseases are important to limit crop losses and maintain global food security. Much work has been performed to detect plant diseases using deep ...